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(No Model.) J. QUINTENZ.

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,017, dated October 5, 1880. Application filed August 12, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN QUINTENZ, of Chicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Faucets, of which the following is a specification.

The object I have in view is to produce a faucet which cannot be opened except by the person having the key thereto, and which, at the same time, will be simple and efficient in construction and convenient in use; and my invention therein consists in the peculiar devices employed by me to accomplish this object, as fully hereinafter explain ed, and pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure l is a perspective view of the faucet in position with the keyin place for opening the faucet; Fig. 2, a central vertical longitudinal section of the faucet; Fig. 3, an end view of the faucet with the key, the cap, and the spring removed; Fig. 4, an elevation of the inner side of the screw-cap and the spiral spring; and Fig. 5, a sectional view of a modified form of the faucet.

Like letters denote corresponding parts in all the figures.

The faucet preferably has an angular head, A, and the ordinary screw-threaded tubular shank B. The head A has a nozzle, a, on its under side, which connects with the interior of the faucet. The faucet-head is bored out horizontally to form a chamber, 0.

D is the tapering faucet-block having the liquid-way I). This block turns in the bore of the faucet, and has a head or flange, 0, turning in the chamber 0. The faucet-block is limited in its rotating movement by a slot, 01, in such flange c, and a pin, ti, in the end of the chamber 0.

The block I) has projecting centrally from its head a spindle, c, to receive the socket of a key, E, and also has a depressiomf, near the spindle to receive a stud, g, on the bit of such key E.

The chamber 0 is closed by a screw-cap, F, having a central slot,h, to receive the key E. The slot It extends some distance into the chamber 0, so as to prevent any person without a proper key from tampering with the faucet.

G is a spiral spring, which, at one end, sets into a hole, 2', in the flange c of the faucetblock, and at its other end is held, by the cap F, in a slot in the wall of the chamber 0. This spiral spring surrounds the tubular extension of the cap F, and not only keeps the tapering faucet-block close in its seat, but also resists the opening of the faucet and closes such faucet when the pressure on the key is released.

The faucet, it will be readily understood, is opened by the removable key against the pressure of the spring, and is closed automatically by the action of the spring. This spring, in addition to making the closing of the faucet block certain, also increases the difficulty of opening the faucet by other means than the key.

In Fig. 5 is shown a faucet with a vertical valve having the same means for operating it as are shown for working the horizontal faucet valve or block already described.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In a faucet, the combination of aturning faucet-valve, adapted to receive on its outer end a removable key, with a spiral spring, which exerts an end pressure on said valve and surrounds the key-barrel, said removable key being inserted through the center of the spiral. spring, substantially as described and shown.

2. In a faucet, the combination of a turning faucet-valve, adapted to receive 011 its outer end a removable key, with a spiral spring fixed stationary at the other end, said spring surrounding the key-barrel and exerting an end pressure on such valve to keep it to its seat, and also closing the valve when opened, substantially as described and shown.

3. In a faucet, the faucet block or valve D, having spindle c and depression f, in combi nation with the removable key E, having the study on its bit, substantially as described and shown.

4. In a faucet, the combination, with the faucet block or valve D, adapted to receive a attached at one end to said turning-valve and;

removable key, of the chamber 0, and the at the other end, and the removable key E, screw-cap F, having sloth extending into the having stud g, all constructed and arranged 1o chamber 0, substantially as described and substantially as described and shown. shown.

5. In a faucet, the combination of block D, JOHN QUINTENZ. having spindle 0 and depression f, of the chain- Witnesses: I v ber O, screw-cap F, having slot h, spiral spring F. V. KAsEI-IAGEN,

Gr, secured to such block at one end and fixed H. A. BAUMANN. 

